The handsome and hard-working Larry Correia fisks the Guardian.

[agilebrit]

Right here. Read it all.

This right here is the money quote: They were bored with dying polar bears, murderous bigoted Christians, lectures about the dangers of capitalism, and thinly veiled Dick Cheneys as bad guys. You can really only slap half of the country upside the head and tell them their beliefs are stupid and backwards so many times before they quit buying your stuff.

Because that is the precise reason I quit reading it a couple of decades ago, and I started reading it again because Jim Butcher dragged me back in with Michael Carpenter. I asked Jim about that, and he said that, yes, he wrote Michael on purpose to be the opposite of the "evil Christian" trope, because he was tired of it too.

And now I'm writing SFF myself. Heck, my 12th story was just published yesterday. I've managed to slide in a couple of good-guy Christian characters into my own fiction here and there. A couple of them have even been published.

And Larry "kept me down" (because that's what he wants, is to keep lady writers down! At least, according to Damien Walter. Oh, wait, am I allowed to say "lady writers"?) by telling an editor to put my story at the top of his stack, and by introducing me to others he was talking to by saying "This is Julie Frost. She's awesome."

THAT BASTARD.

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[foxfire74.livejournal.com]

So much this. I still read SFF, just...not as much and not as joyfully, and that's a bit sad. But I do get tired of "tee-hee, people who don't think like me are all dumb inbred racist hicks and probably child abusers to boot" (THANK YOU, Margaret Ball, for your shining example of that one). I try to read stuff on the other side of the aisle to keep my mind flexible, but after a while it gets predictable (oh look, Sheri S. Tepper thinks horror fans are evil and masculine men are a waste of skin. Again).

I was highly unimpressed by the Walter article. Man needs a spine; the wet noodle he's using is dangerously wobbly.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Yep, pretty much. Stephen King is especially guilty of this, from Carrie's mother onward.

At least most of the stuff I'm reading now isn't actively hostile to me and mine anymore. It was bad there, for awhile. Finding the right writers is key.